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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [72r] (143/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PERSIA.
SECRET
Copy No. 114
Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received February 17.)
(No. 40.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith copy of Intelligence Summary No. 5, the 27th January to the
2nd February, 1943, compiled by the military attache to this legation.'
Tehran, February 2. 1943.
Enclosure.
(Secret.)
Military Attache s Intelligence Summary No. 5 for the 'period January 27 to
February 2, 1943.
Persian Affairs.
Political.
THE new Cabinet has been received generally without enthusiasm or
criticism. The introduction of new blood is welcomed, but the people are far more
concerned with the worsening economic situation, and by their handling of that
the new Cabinet will be judged.
2. The paper Keyhan. which has in the past been, and may still be,
subsidised by the Shah, recently published an article which stressed that Persia
was now suffering some of the evils of war without hope of being compensated
when peace was signed. The general trend of the article was a vague suggestion
that Persia should now join the United Nations. The press generally has
refrained from comment on Iraq’s declaration of war, and there is no indication
of any public enthusiasm for similar action by Persia.
Economic.
3. The food situation in almost all parts of Persia, except the Soviet-
occupied zone, is causing the greatest anxiety. In Tehran the bread is so
adulterated as to be almost uneatable and no bread at all is obtainable in the
suburbs. The temper of the poor is approaching an outbreak. No grain can be
expected from Azerbaijan, at least for some time to come, as the transport
available is only barely sufficient to keep Tabriz supplied and at the same time
to maintain deliveries to the Russians in accordance with the agreement made
that they should have 20,000 tons of grain. In Shiraz and Kerman local stocks
are fast being exhausted and no surpluses of wheat are available in other parts
to make up the deficit.
4. The Council of Ministers has published a decree prohibiting entirely the
export of raisins, walnuts, dates, peanuts, macaroni, tinned fish, meat and
vegetables. Other dried fruits and nuts, oil-seeds, pork and lard may only be
exported against the import of other food-stuffs or cotton and woollen goods.
T ransport.
5. The Road Transport Department has announced that the rates per
ton-kilometre for transport by lorries under its control vary from 2 rials for a
complete lorry load to 4 rials for smaller consignments. The movement of goods
is permissible only through the
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
of the Road Transport Department.
6. A head-on railway collision occurred on the 10th January on the
southern section of the line, operated by the Americans, which resulted in the
death of fourteen and injury to thirty-six British, Americans and Indians.
[38—57]
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 375; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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